What people are saying about the latest revelations concerning the president’s health care law.

Megan McArdle, Bloomberg: "The Washington Post (reports) that (the Obama administration) is looking for 80% of users to be able to buy health care plans online. ... Are we measuring 80% of attempts to use the website or 80% of the folks who will ultimately enroll on the exchange? ... All the vagueness probably helps the administration. ... Ultimately, there's only one metric that really matters: enrollment. Are a lot of people signing up? And does that number contain a good percentage of young, healthy people, or is it mostly the old and the sick? ... Even if we get hard numbers, early December is leaving it awfully late; folks who are losing their current policies need to buy new ones by Dec. 15. If the system is really and truly broken, there's a real risk that we'll only know that for certain long past the point where it's too late to do anything about it."

Brian Beutler, Salon: "Twenty percent is still a pretty big fail rate, before looking at who the 20% are. There are two ways to look at — and thus two ways to spin — the 80/20 goal, two months after the initial rollout, which barely worked for anyone. The first is that it'll almost certainly still leave tons of people dissatisfied, and that's not good enough to constitute 'success.' The second is that it'll allow millions of people to enroll quickly, and it'll do a decent job reducing the pent-up demand for benefits."

Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo: "Obviously, the devil is in the details here. I think everyone understands there will likely be some very complicated edge cases where the calculation of a subsidy may require getting on the phone with someone. Just how complicated your situation has to be before the website can't help you will be the key question. ... The political reality is that landing with a thud on Oct. 1 means that everything about this site and the law is now getting extremely close and often misleadingly negative scrutiny. The reality reality, however, is not necessarily as dire as a lot of these reports suggest."

Jonathan Chait, New York: "It is always possible that the most recent Obamacare trend line will continue ad infinitum. More likely, things will round back into normalcy. ... All sorts of things will happen to Obamacare in the next few months. At least some of those things will be bad, because any large enough enterprise, public or private, has bad things happen. One thing that can be predicted is that more and more people will start signing up for Obamacare between now and the end of March, which means the constituency for the law will steadily grow."

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., The Wall Street Journal: "Obamacare's flaws are being exposed in painful ways for the American people. What started as a broken website ... is now snowballing into a full-scale disaster that makes it increasingly clear this law can't be fixed. ... Obamacare is a living monument to this culture, and no one loses more than the average American."

Jonathan Cohn, New Republic: "Lots of people losing coverage are losing policies they never liked much, that they would have dropped soon anyway, and that would have left them facing potential financial ruin if they got sick. Even those with truly good policies had no guarantees that in one year, let alone two or three, they'd still be able to pay for them. It's impossible to specify exactly how many people are going to be better off in the new system or how many will feel better off."